Thailand has committed to the targets of the 2011 High Level Meeting on AIDS and has a prioritized National Strategy which pledges a two-thirds reduction in incidence in sexual transmission, and through injecting drug use, by 2016.

The Thai epidemic is a very mature one; at its peak in the mid-1990’s Thailand had around 160,000 new HIV infections per year. It’s well known 100% condom programme addressing the client-sex worker relationship brought a dramatic change in incidence reduction. Thailand managed to reduce the incidence to less than 10,000 new HIV infections per year (2012) – this means more than 90% from its peak 20 years ago. In 2010, there was an estimated 500,000 people living with HIV in Thailand.